You can use your dies in many ways. Here I have die cut the snowflake and I have use it as a mask to give some interest to the background of my card. Then I have used the actual inked snowflake in my card, so there is no waist!

Then have die cut the presents with different pattern papers and have attached them to the card base with foam squares and to finish the card I have attached some red and green pearls and doodled some dash lines with white gel pen on the snowflake.